Animal Person
AUGUST 12, 2010
In " Move to Limit 'Factor Farms' Gains Momentum " in today's New York Times , we learn that farmers in Ohio have agreed to phase out gestation crates within 15 years and veal crates by 2017. This adds another layer to yesterday's discussion about family. Irv Bell's farm is a family farm. It's also a factory farm.
Animal Person
AUGUST 23, 2009
The New York Times ' Nicholas D. The animals were still bred and raised for slaughter, but evidently in some kind of soulful way we don't really hear about. Essentially, industrialized farming=soulless, small family farm=soulful. Kristof frustrates me.
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Animal Person
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. Like when they're about to be, say, slaughtered?
Animal Person
AUGUST 19, 2009
It just so happens that after I read Bea's comment from yesterday about reaching kids with our message I saw a New York Times article from today called " Where Little Chefs Learn the Art of Slicing and Dicing ," by Ann Farmer. The kids made tortillas from scratch and then went to a factory to see how professionals do it. One is male.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
Fitting, since New York City and London were the centers of the millinery trade. This photograph of a family working on feathers while the father looks on is from the National Child Labor Committee Photograph series taken by Lewis Hine. side, the writings of New York City reformer Mary Van Kleeck.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 28, 2014
The one taking place this weekend at the Rip Van Winkle Rod and Gun Club in Palenville, NY is targeting American Crows , and parents are invited to bring their children along to participate in the slaughter. Since no one was vilified by gun club defenders more than Friends of Animals , I called its New York director, Edita Birnkrant.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
And as the slaughtering of animals is not high tech, certainly no trade secrets would be at risk with the imposition of cameras. Back in the olden days of the family farm we never knew about the occurrence of food-related illness because we did not have a way of tracking it. I think most would, enthusiastically.
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